Storage
August 23rd, 2008 at 03:46pm
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With corporations worrying ever more about data loss from misplaced laptops, one great application of the Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is for full disk encryption, which implements encryption as close to the disk hardware as possible.
Toshiba have linked up with Wave Systems to use Wave’s EMBASSY Trusted Drive Manager and Remote Adminstration [...]
Continue Reading Wave Systems and Toshiba link up on full disk encryption
Tags: embassy, fde, toshiba, wave
By Ken Y-N
August 12th, 2008 at 02:56pm
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On the Blogs and Files blog I found an interesting post discussing Full Disk Encryption (FDE) on hard drives.
First, Seagate’s FDE-supporting Cheetah 15K.6 drive, using specifications developed by the Storage Workgroup of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), will be used in enterprise-targeted drive arrays, as FDE is becoming a requirement in certain markets. In addition, [...]
Continue Reading Full Disk Encryption is ecologically sound
Tags: ecology, fde
By Ken Y-N
June 24th, 2008 at 08:18am
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I’ve previously highlighted Seagate’s encrypted drive but this article from the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) official blog looks at best practises for hardware encryption-based disk arrays.
Two key documents from the TCG’s Storage Group are an application note from November 2007 entitled “Encrypting Drives in an Array Controller” and “Key Management Services Application Note”. These can [...]
Continue Reading Encrypted storage and disk arrays
Tags: seagate
By Ken Y-N
May 21st, 2008 at 04:33am
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Business Wire recently republished a press release from Wave Systems on their presence at Dell’s “Future of Computing” roadshow travelling all over the USA.
Their particular solution is using the Seagate Momentus FDE (full drive encryption) hard drive with Wave’s server software to enable such features as event logging and password recovery, by using the Trusted [...]
Continue Reading Wave touring with Dell to demonstrate hardware-based encryption
Tags: business wire, dell, seagate, wave
By Ken Y-N
April 28th, 2008 at 02:18pm
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An interesting article was recently published by INFOSTOR, written by Dr Michael Willett, co-chair of the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Storage Working Group (SWG), and a senior director at Seagate Research.
One of the drivers behind the SWG is that there is a definite move towards performing backups to disk rather than tape. In addition, with [...]
Continue Reading Storage security and TCG
Tags: seagate
By Ken Y-N
April 21st, 2008 at 01:52pm
Under Storage
There has been a press release today from Fujitsu describing how they will release a new disk drive with the part ID MHZ2 CJ at the end of May 2008 featuring 256-bit AES encryption support built-in to reduce overhead. The system is (perhaps, it is not 100% clear from the press release) built around the [...]
Continue Reading Fujitsu to release world’s first 2.5 inch 320 GB drive with AES 256
Tags: fujitsu
By Ken Y-N
April 21st, 2008 at 01:51pm
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This is a bit of almost one-year-old news, but it was only recently brought to my attention, so I’ll post about it. This year’s Interop is nearly upon us, and the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) will be there, so this podcast is a bit of a taster of what to expect.
Paul Sangster and Steve Hanna [...]
Continue Reading TCG TNC guys interviewed at Interop
Tags: podcast
By Ken Y-N
